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I am in the US and boy oh boy, shopping is a blood sport right now. This morning I had to pick up a prescription and my pharmacy is the grocery store. There was little to no meat. Bread was fully stocked, if you count it was store brand and mostly white. Didn't even go down some of the other...

Is this weird? I was tad overweight at diagnosis in October. After diagnosis, doctor asked me to lose about 10 pounds. I saw a dietitian, researched diet for diabetes to death and learned all about carbs and the effects on blood glucose. Cut those carbs and sit around 20-25 per meal. My meter...

This made me laugh...partly because I am almost phobic about things near my eyes (depth perception issues, I never really know exactly how far away or close things are) but also because my dad is a dentist and he tells me I act like his pediatric patients if I have to get a shot in my mouth...

Thank you for your answers! I am not given any kind of paperwork when I leave (this was my fourth shot) but have beenn told verbally on multiple occasions of what to look for. Friday the doctor said that one thing was that I would know if there is a problem because it would hurt more than...

I think I put this somewhere else, but the original way it was determined that I had diabetes (type 2) was through an eye exam. I get them a lot. I see a low vision doctor due to nystagmus (acquired when I was a teen, no relationship to the diabetes) and double vision. We are in the process of...

I was diagnosed in October with an a1c of 10.1%. At that time, with a lot of research and reading (and not a lot of help from the doctor's office) I learned that I should I should be testing a lot, and lowering my carbs. I did. My first a1c after diagnosis was a 6.2% (or 6.1% I can't remember)...

You know, I am glad to read all this as well. I was diagnosed in October and started testing right away. I learned that the less carbs I eat, the better off my numbers were. I was slightly overweight and my doc suggested loosing about 10 pounds. I was wondering how I was going to do that but...

Not particularly. I put it equivalent but different. I think that is why I am asking...the only thing that I can think of that is different is the amount I drink?

Sometimes I get off my routine and don't drink enough. My Certified Diabetes Educator told me that tea and coffee count as liquid, but I also drink a good bit of water. But on the weekends, I tend to get off track (easier to have routine on work days.) My question relates to this...I have...

I am going to doc right after the holidays, but am curious as to how low low numbers should be? I am taking metformin only (2000 per day.) I was given the high end numbers, but not the low so I am not sure at what point if/when I should call the doctor about adjusting medication. Like for...

So a follow up question: I am testing to learn about how different foods effect me-more like learning trends I guess. I will sometimes eat something a couple/three times to see how it averages. One thing though, I got numbers from the dietitian about what the upper numbers should be, but not the...

I have googled but can't seem to find answer. If you are testing two hours after a meal, what happens if you miss the two hour window by say...10 minutes or 15 minutes? Should you test anyway? Skip testing? Is there a big difference between the numbers between that two hours and two hours and...

Thank you all for your wonderful answers, It was all so helpful. Isn't is sad that this is a question we have to ask?I still have a lot of questions, but am slowly learning and think over time will learn to coexist with this no reality

So, I posted a couple of days ago about questions and y'all were so lovely and welcoming. (Although, I do owe an apology for using a curse word out of frustration ... I am so sorry if I offended anyone. :( ) I sometimes feel very alone in this new diagnosis. As I mentioned before, I received...

I need to learn how to use the quote function. Typically the after meal (2 hours) run between 95 and 125 depending on what I eat. There were a few random OMG numbers, but that was when I learned about 1. bad food choices and 2. washing my hands better before testing. I also spent two weeks...

Hi...like so many, I am new to this and was virtually thrown into the deep end of the pool with no lessons. I have all kinds of eye issues and during one of many dilated eye exams, the eye doc pushed away from me and asked if I had diabetes. When I answered no, he said you should go to your...